The Down-River View From the Emirates Air-Line
Previously on my three trips on the Emirates Air-Line, I’ve always sat so I could see up-river. Today, I sat the other side and looked down-river.
As you can see there was a bit of rain about, so it might be worth checking the wind direction, if there is, so that your side windows are clear.
On a day with good visibility, you’d get a superb view of the Thames Barrier.
Note that up-river for me is one of those titter-words. The fictional cast list of Beyond Our Ken in the 1950s and 1960s, often included a lady called Maud Upriver.
Where Is Bill Mclaren?
The events at Queen’s yesterday needed Bill McLaren, as there was as he would say a spot of “Argy-Bargy”.
Just as some great sportsmen live on in peoples’s minds because of what they did, some great commentators live on because of what they said.
The United States Censors The Thick of It.
According to this report, the American version of The Thick of It has been censored for bad language.
What does it say for a country, where you can’t say “Fuck” on television, but you keep the death penalty?
A Clever Name
I took this picture of a van from a bus, as I went towards the Angel.
damselinadress.co.uk
It always helps to have a good name for a business. www.damselinadress.co.uk is a good one!
GreaterAnglia Trains Don’t Terminate
They complete their journeys, as I heard tonight. Terminate is so hard and possibly tragic. I’ve complained of this before.
Honor Oak Park Station
Honor Oak Park station is on the East London Line and it is a station I passed through on the way to see Ipswich play at Crystal Palace this afternoon.
But why is it spelt the American way?
It is actually spelt in the proper old English way from the Latin roots, which of course Americans would have originally used. There is a discussion here. Note that the girl’s name as in, the actress, Honor Blackman is also spelt without the u.
So don’t write to London Overground and complain!
France’s Public Finances are as Precariously Balanced as a Drunk on a Tightrope
This phrase was used in the second leader of The Times today. I like it.
The leader also goes on to use that wonderful English word; pootle.
My Concise Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t have the word. I think it must be a London word, as C often used it.
But it is in the online version of the OED and is defined as.
move or travel in a leisurely manner
It was a strange word though for a serious piece in a serious newspaper.
Thoughts of Angel on the Drought
I’ve posted before about Thoughts of Angel at Angel station on the Northern line.
Thoughts of Angel on the Drought
This was their comment on the drought.
What Is The Plural of a Plural?
Most surnames are singular, like Smith, Brown or Cameron, so if you’re say going to supper with friends with this name, you might say you’re going to the Smiths.
But what do you do, if your friends have a name that s already plural? I have friends with such a name of French origin that in French would be plural.
So what do you call them collectively?
Sarah Palin ‘believed Queen was in charge of British forces in Iraq’
Another article from the Daily Telegraph.
I think if the Queen had been in charge, we wouldn’t have had a war in Iraq.
Sarah Palin always strikes me that if she had had a word fight with any of the great wordsmiths, she’d have been metaphorically hung, drawn and quartered.
The Anonymous Widower 